This week I experienced something really cool. My new Inventium home in Sydney, is right next to my old office at Deloitte (we’re neighbours now guys!). Taking advantage of my new found proximity to old colleagues, my first Friday night in a new city was spent ‘nerd-ing-out’ with Jo Rhoden on John Hagel’s new researchRead more
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One of my business heroes, Jack Welch, recently took the liberty of letting everyone know that they’re getting innovation all wrong. According to Mr. Welch, businesses too often get caught up in thinking that innovation is the realm of genius – think Einstein, Edison and Jobs – and miss the opportunity to empower everyone toRead more
During my time at Inventium, one thing I have heard pretty consistently, is that financial rewards can be an innovation culture killer. A lot of the psychology literature on innovation addresses the difference between intrinsic motivations and extrinsic rewards. While anecdotally, it seems to make sense that financial rewards are the best way to motivateRead more
Many of my clients over the past year have shared a common challenge: finding time for innovation. We often find that innovation is seen as an ‘extra’ on top of an employees job and something that they have to do in their own time. People can be trained and funding can be arranged, but itRead more
You might have heard over the weekend about Google’s 20% time actually being more like 120% time – meaning the very well publicised Google perk of getting to spend 20% of your time on self-set innovation projects is actually something that you now do in your spare time (i.e. after you have finished doing yourRead more